Cyber Insurance: An Overview of an Evolving Coverage

Russell Cohen and Alison Roffi co-authored an article describing the development of cyber insurance for the Fall 2015 issue of California Business Law Practitioner.

Reprinted from California Business Law Practitioner, copyright 2015 by the Regents of the University of California. Reproduced with permission of Continuing Education of the Bar - California (CEB). No other republication or external use is allowed without permission of CEB. All rights reserved. (For information about CEB publications, telephone toll free 1-800-CEB-3444 ot visit our web site - CEB.com.)

Russell Cohen is a partner in Orrick's San Francisco office with experience litigating antitrust and other business disputes on behalf of companies and individuals, particularly in the technology sector.

Russell has represented clients in complex business disputes for more than 15 years. He has extensive experience with the antitrust laws, particularly as they apply to technology companies, implicating issues such as platform economics and strategy, software interoperability and the duty to disclose interface information; IP-related claims, including Walker Process and patent misuse; and non-compete and other employee arrangements. He has represented clients in direct and indirect purchaser antitrust class actions, unfair competition cases and competitor suits in state and federal court, as well as in arbitration and international forums.

Russell is also a member of Orrick's Cyber,
Privacy & Data Innovation practice, working with clients on incident planning and data-breach response efforts, including utilizing cyber insurance as part of a coordinated, comprehensive strategy for managing and recovering from data breaches. Exclusively on behalf of policyholders, he has pursued claims and litigated complex insurance disputes to recover for cyber attacks, employee sabotage, phishing schemes and other losses. He speaks and publishes frequently in the United States and Canada on cybersecurity litigation and cyber insurance.

Russell has also represented clients in other complex business disputes, including venture capital investor disputes, insurance recovery for financial, property and other losses and other commercial matters in federal and state court, and in arbitration proceedings.

Russell is committed to pro bono legal work and community service. He was counsel in the successful Alien Tort Statue case against one of the assassins of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered in El Salvador in 1980. He represented former Guantanamo detainees seeking damages for torture and unlawful detention, and was amicus counsel for a group of Canadian and international human rights organizations and scholars in the U.S. Supreme Court in Arar v. Ashcroft.

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